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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead drop USBs for file sharing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news, we closed that pesky loophole by banning encryption without backdoors.

  If they can’t decode it, you better be ready to explain exactly what those bytes were!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mississippi Age Verification Law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve done it before.

  Back when reddit was young, before social media apps captured the content. It just doesn’t matter now. Critical mass of the internet is corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  CE is neat because most companies will treat you as if you had a CS or EE degree. Can always pivot to HW or FPGA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If there’s no hope for getting a job, it doesn’t mean they’re not passionate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always has been

  Residents in big cities have been experiencing it for decades at this point.

  ConEd saying “We’re preparing for the heat wave in your area this week. Please, limit your energy usage to prevent power outages.”

  Yeah, and times square is still lit up full brightness. The the skyscraper offices aren’t doing their part. Most of them, you can feel the cold on the street from their lobbies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They listed the majority first. That’s all they did here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not true- ATMs definitely track SN, that’s how they catch theives. I’m almost certain banks would record SN too, at least nowadays. It would be stupid simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so conversion or unjust enrichment instead of literal theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to cancel some cards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always gps spoofing via debug mode too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pin pitch means how tiny the physical pins in the connector can be spaced apart.

  IR drop losses happen because a wire has resistance, it isn’t a perfect conductor. 28AWG wire has about 0.22ohm/m. Given a 2 meter cable, you might expect to see 0.44ohm one-way. Current is also travelling back, so the circuit “sees” another 0.44ohm. That’s a total of 0.88ohm

  A wire will cause voltage drop following ohm’s law. V=I/*R. So for 1A of current, you will see 0.88V lost.

  Say you’re trying to charge at 15W (5V 3A), your phone is only going to ‘see’ 2.36 volts, and 7.9W are wasted in the cable.

  For a 100W device (20V, 5A), 4.4V are lost, also meaning 22W are wasted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The concentration of them is rising exponentially, that’s the part that terrifies me.

  It’s possible we just haven’t crossed a threshold yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And formula fed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, middle school

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Training Slop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How much electricity was wasted for you to post, and us to receive, your human slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Microwave point-to-point radios are fastest because they travel through air, but more importantly, are typically the shortest path possible by line-of-sight.

  Being 66.7% of speed of light doesn’t matter terribly when you consider that the cable path is shorter by more than 66.7% of path taken by satelite link.

  There’s also the idea of

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I replace honey with maple syrup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait really? Butterworth is more like honey than maple syrup?

  I guess butterworth is just flavored HFCS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even a 20 year old computer. Honestly.

  The start menu should barely make a dent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t say how much: you’re gifted at one thing, but you’re now nonverbal and every sensation is overwhelming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rtlsdr too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll have a bad time with used copper tape. Just like why it isn’t advised to reuse any other kind of tape (duct, packaging, electrical)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most copper tape i’ve seen has conductive adhesive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Radio waves are a specific wavelength/band of the EM spectrum. Light is not radio waves, just as radiowaves aren’t light.

  They’re both electromagnetic waves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Step 1: take the magnetron out of a microwave oven

  Step 2: …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things can be true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah- that is a bit odd. Who and if not intentional, how?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit, that AI chat is too good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep.